by Conrad MacIntyre
By Conrad MacIntyre
The Mac App Store is in significant danger of becoming an irrelevant, low-traffic flea market where buyers rarely venture for serious purchases. And I bet that’s not what Apple had in mind at all.
A well thought-out piece about Apple's shifting goal posts in the Mac App Store. I how Cupertino is listening.
Marco Arment on ReadWriteWeb's follow-up article about the Retina MacBook Pro:
Actually, it’s pretty clear that Gonsalves is not an Apple customer, and doesn’t want to consider why all of us stupid consumer sheep keep falling for Apple’s “marketing”. And it says a lot about ReadWriteWeb that they’d allow someone so blatantly unqualified to write two inflammatory Apple articles with their logo on top.
Scathing.
Apple needs to change the Address Book API to require user permission first, like Core Location and Push Notifications do. I don’t care how many applications break as a result. Not requiring user permission to date should be treated as a security hole and patched promptly.
I agree. If any app wants access to my personal data it should ask me. I'm actually surprised this hasn't been addressed before.
Anecdotally, I’ve had about a 50% failure rate recently.
Same here...
This hasn't been my experience at all. Maybe because I'm in Canada, I'm not sure. But I've only found Siri to be getting better and better. I has begun to understand nicknames and recognizes people better than ever. Still, curious.
Marco Arment's review of John Siracusa's review of Mountian Lion, under the heading 'Battery Life':
At medium brightness, my iPad (3rd-generation) battery fell from 73% to 56% while I read the review on it.
Excellent.